Omar Epps Quotes

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Decision

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Time
  • Business
  • Future

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
  • Done

• During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Great
  • Business
  • Football

• I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Friend

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Business
  • Want
  • Style

• Business is tough; you need tough guys.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Business
  • You
  • Tough

• But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • News
  • Observation

• Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Taken

• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Business
  • Best
  • Value

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Great
  • Me
  • Mean

• Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Acting

• I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

  

  Allison Anders
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.

  

  Kevin Durant
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Men
  • Home
  • Business

• But, look; it also exists for acts that are really established. It's not always a guarantee that you're going to do something that's going to be of quality. It's not always in your control. That's sort of how the business is. Because for the moment - for the moment, we're blessed.

  

  Steve Zissis
  • Business
  • Control
  • Blessed

• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Know
  • Like
  • Potential

• There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Business
  • Show
  • Beat